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The Sidamo production area is 1,400-2,200 meters above sea level and is a famous specialty coffee area in southern Ethiopia, bordering Kenya. The washed Sidamo is light green, with small beans, oval shape, plump fruits, good average quality, fragrant and mellow smell, no aftertaste after a drop of it.
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The emergence of hand-brewed coffee was originally to make coffee making easier. With the changes of the times and the improvement of the quality of life, everyone is enjoying the process of making hand-brewed coffee more and more, and there is more research and pursuit. Research is constantly innovating, and everyone is constantly pursuing it, so that many misunderstandings have arisen, which has caused many friends to
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The emergence of hand-brewed coffee was originally to make coffee making easier. With the changes of the times and the improvement of the quality of life, everyone is enjoying the process of making hand-brewed coffee more and more, and there is more research and pursuit. Research is constantly innovating, and everyone is constantly pursuing it, so that many misunderstandings have arisen, which has caused many friends to
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"After grinding the coffee beans, there is so much silver skin. If you don't clean it before brewing, won't this affect the flavor of the coffee?" Front Street noticed that many friends are obsessed with the silver skin in the coffee powder when making hand-brewed coffee, thinking that the silver skin will produce an astringent taste and affect the coffee flavor. Is this really the case? then! Front Street Cafe
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There are a dazzling array of coffee brewing instructional books in bookstores. Those of you who are just starting to learn manual brewing must be worried about whether this is the right thing to do in every aspect of brewing, right? What is the most important thing when making coffee by hand? To put it simply, it means mastering the status of coffee beans, the standard of flavor, and maintaining the correct
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For more knowledge about specialty coffee, please follow the WeChat public account: FrontStreet Coffee. Recently, many friends have been asking FrontStreet, "What coffee beans are suitable for Moka pots?" So Front Street took a look at the sales of Moka pots in online stores, and after a comprehensive analysis, the top four best-selling Moka pots were combined.
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As a standard household coffee appliance, the Moka pot should not be bound by too many data standards. As long as it meets a few main operating methods, the rest can be freely used according to your own taste. First, what kind of coffee beans are used to make the flavor of the coffee has a lot to do with what kind of coffee beans you use.
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For more knowledge about specialty coffee, please follow the WeChat public account: FrontStreet Coffee There are many similarities between the two brewing methods of hanging coffee and hand-brewed coffee. But for the same kind of coffee beans, hand-brewed coffee will taste better than hanging coffee. Ear hanging
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From the same bean, there will be a certain difference in flavor between freshly roasted coffee and hanging coffee, because after the coffee is ground into powder, the natural aroma will disappear quickly. Of course, there are many old customers in Front Street who ask for the powder to be ground and shipped. Generally, Front Street recommends drinking it as soon as possible. Of course, compared to hand flushing, ear-mounting is
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As the craze for specialty coffee sweeps across the world, more and more customers like to buy cooked coffee beans and brew them back. Many of them also ask similar questions: "The coffee I drank on the front street is so delicious, why can't I brew the same taste when I go home?" This article of Front Street will analyze and answer this question one by one. of coffee beans
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As two terms that beginners must learn, espresso and Americano have long been used all over the world, but some friends are still confused about them and how to make them at home. Today’s article will answer your doubts. Italian coffee, also called espresso, espresso
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Dark roasted coffee beans are basically bitter in dark chocolate. At the same time, they can provide a relatively mellow taste and the caramel aroma of traditional coffee. The most representative dark roasted single-origin coffee is Front Street. Front Street PWN Golden Mandheling, which has a mellow burnt aroma with the smell of herbs, wood, and spices; and then there is medium-dark coffee.
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"Burned! Burnt! Burnt! Burnt! Bitter! Bitter! Bitter! Bitter!" Friends often report that the coffee they make with a Moka pot tastes either burnt or bitter, and it does not achieve the mellow, rich, balanced and soft taste. So today Front Street is going to share what causes the burnt and bitter taste, and what we should do
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Although people's joys and sorrows are not the same, people's preferences for taste are always similar. For example, most people prefer sweetness to sourness or bitterness. So you can see that many brewing methods in hand brewing are developed around how to sweeten coffee. For example, Front Street will share today
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In specialty coffee, the description of sweetness has always received much attention, because it is not only one of the indicators for judging the quality of a coffee bean, but also a delicious taste that is highly sought after by roasters, baristas and brewing enthusiasts. If a cup of black coffee has both aroma and sweetness, it means that it has been ideally controlled from raw materials to extraction.
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In addition to being brewed with hot water, coffee can also be made with cold water. Coffee made with cold water is called "cold brew coffee" and has a different style compared to hot brewed coffee. Cold brew coffee is divided into cold brew coffee and ice drip coffee. Cold brew coffee is to soak coffee powder in cold water, and ice drip coffee is to use drip filter.
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Nowadays, hand-brewed coffee and espresso are the two most mainstream brewing methods, so coffee beans in the consumer market are almost developed around these two uses. The extraction principles of hand brewing and espresso are different. Hand brewing coffee is a normal pressure drip extraction, which is a bit like making tea and has a refreshing taste; while espresso is a type of enhanced coffee.
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Front Street shared: A good cup of American coffee must not only extract a suitable concentrated base, but also have a suitable concentration. Only by meeting these two requirements can the American coffee we make be more in line with our own taste. Then when we learn how to make a regular cup of American coffee, we can
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"Have you changed the beans? This Americano looks like..." I believe many baristas will feel a little uneasy when they hear this sentence. They are afraid that the other party will say negative descriptors such as "so bitter", "so astringent", "unpalatable" and so on. So they tentatively ask if there is any problem until they hear
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good! This is another topic that everyone is very interested in. When a friend bought beans at a store yesterday, he reported to Front Street that he found that the portions of iced espresso ordered at different coffee shops were different. In some coffee shops, the coffee is full after removing the ice, while in some coffee shops, the coffee is only about 70% full after removing the ice, or even
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